Top South African politician and anti-apartheid activist Pallo Jordan has resigned as an MP after it was revealed his academic qualifications were fake.<\/p>\n
A former minister, he first served under ex-President Nelson Mandela and is generally referred to as Dr Jordan.<\/p>\n
But media reports said he had lied on his CV about having a doctorate.<\/p>\n
The governing African National Congress (ANC) said Mr Jordan had apologised for “deceiving government and the people of South Africa for many years”.<\/p>\n
“A man of Comrade Pallo Jordan’s intellect does not need to perpetuate deceit, he must be given time to deal with his guilt,” ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe in a statement.<\/p>\n
“As the ANC, we have accepted his public apology. To apologise was not an action of the faint hearted.”<\/p>\n
ANC veteran<\/b><\/p>\n
Mr Jordan, 72, began working for the ANC in exile and rose through its ranks, returning to South Africa after the party was unbanned to become its spokesman.<\/p>\n
He went on to hold several ministerial posts after the end of white minority rule in 1994 until 2009.<\/p>\n
A report in South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper said that its investigation found that the ANC veteran had no degrees or diplomas from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the London School of Economics, the two institutions cited on his CV.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says Mr Jordan is a respected political figure in South Africa and the news has caused a stir in the country.<\/p>\n
But it is not the first time senior ANC members have been exposed for falsifying their qualifications, with two similar cases in the last four years, she says.<\/p>\n
Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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